Australian Biological Resources Study

Australian Faunal Directory

Subspecies Geophaps (Lophophaps) plumifera ferruginea (Gould, 1865)

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Subspecies Geophaps (Lophophaps) plumifera ferruginea (Gould, 1865)

  • Lophophaps ferruginea Gould, J. 1865. Handbook to the Birds of Australia. London : J. Gould Vol. 2 629 pp. [For publication date Mathews, G.M. 1925. The Birds of Australia. Supplements 4 & 5. Bibliography of the Birds of Australia Pts 1 & 2. London : H.F. & G. Witherby viii 149 pp.] [137] [holotype probably illustrated on pl. 68 in Gould, J. 1869. The Birds of Australia. Supplement. London : J. Gould 81 pls pp. [Pt 3, 1859]].
    Type data:
     Holotype BMNH 1881.5.1.6186 adult, upper Gascoyne River, WA (as opposite Sharks' Bay and Dirk Hartog's Island … Gascoigne River)
    Comment: for identification of holotype, see Salvadori, T. 1893. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Columbae, or Pigeons. London : British Museum Vol. 21 xvii 676 pp. XV pls; Warren, R.L.M. 1966. Type-specimens of Birds in the British Museum (Natural History). Vol. 1 Non-Passerines. London : British Museum ix 320 pp.

 

Distribution

States

Western Australia


Extra Distribution Information

Pilbara and Gascoyne regions, S Eighty Mile Beach, S to Gascoyne River, inland to Meekatharra, isolated population in Cape Range, stony ranges at North West Cape, throughout Pilbara, north to De Grey River, east to Rudall River and Carnarvon Range, and south to upper Murchison and Wooramel Rivers, with outliers north to Edgar Ranges (west) and ?Mt Arthur in SW Kimberley Division, and east to Rawlinson, Walter James and Mann Ranges on intersection of WA, NT and SA borders. Intergrades with G. p. plumifera Gould, 1842 out from north outliers and with G. p. leucogaster (Gould, 1867) out from east outliers as detailed under those subspecies.


Note that conversion of the original AFD map of states, drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones to IBRA and IMCRA regions may have produced errors. The new maps will be reviewed and corrected as updates occur. The maps may not indicate the entire distribution. See further details below.
IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)
drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones (map not available)

IBRA

WA: Carnarvon (CAR), Coolgardie (COO), Central Ranges (CR), Dampierland (DL), Gascoyne (GAS), Gibson Desert (GD), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), Murchison (MUR), Nullarbor (NUL), Pilbara (PIL), Tanami (TAN), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

  • Australia
    • Western Australia: NW coastal, W plateau

Ecological Descriptors

Diurnal, granivore, gregarious, hummock grassland, low open woodland, open scrub, saxicoline, sedentary, tall open shrubland, terrestrial, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Opportunistic breeder, ground-living seed-eater in stony country with permanent water and spinifex (Triodia, Plectrachne), flushes explosively with flap-and-glide flight, drinks in groups, roosts in coveys on ground, nests on ground.

 

History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.
Published As part of group Action Date Action Type Compiler(s)
12-Feb-2010 (import)